Safaricom Foundation has launched its 2023-2026 strategy, titled ‘Partnering to Enhance Equity’, which will focus on community investments in Education, Health, and Economic Empowerment.
This follows the successful implementation of its 2018 to 2021 strategy that saw over 4 million people positively impacted through more than 2,000 community projects.
In the new 2023 to 2026 strategy, the Foundation will integrate ICT, Sustainable Philanthropy and Humanitarian Response as major execution components to ensure the delivery of long-lasting impactful projects and philanthropic investments to address communities’ urgent needs and immediate concerns.
Education
Safaricom Foundation aims to focus on qualify education by improving the capacity of teachers to deliver learning in primary and secondary schools, which will improve learning outcomes among learners. They also aim to skill youth in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions by increasing access to training and employment opportunities while improving TVET institutions.
Health
The strategy looks at how to strengthen health services by increasing access and utilization of quality reproductive, maternal and neonatal mortality in Kenya. The Foundation will also intergrate screening for non-communicable diseases to enable early detection, treatment and management.
Economic empowerment
Under economic empowerment, the Foundation will use technology to address barriers to youth participation in agriculture especially access to capital/loans. They will also establish innovative and knowledge sharing networks and platforms; undertake agro value chain analysis to determine potential products and value addition processes that the youth can easily engage in.
“In this 2023 to 2026 Safaricom Foundation strategy, we will heavily leverage technology across the three pillars to improve efficiency and scale impact. By 2026, we hope that Safaricom Foundation will have proven that it is possible to impact the community through technological interventions,” said Peter Ndegwa, CEO, Safaricom.
